Independent Evaluation of the Agile Development Tools Market - Get Your Copy Now!

In the report, "The Forrester Wave(tm): Agile Development Management Tools, Q2 2010," May, 2010, Forrester Research, Inc. found MKS to be
one of only two vendors that, "…led the pack with the best overall current feature sets". Forrester suggests that planning happens more
frequently in Agile projects than in traditional ones, and drives the need for ALM tooling or requires tight integration between project
management and ALM tools. In the report, MKS received top score for its current offering in the 'Running a Project' category.
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More than 2000 Tools Listed on SoftDevTools.com

Our software development tools directory has now categorized more than 2000 tools.
From project management and unit testing tools to NOSQL databases, you can find tools used in every software development activity,
as the 10'000 monthly visitors do, searching by programming language, running platforms or another of our classification criteria.
If you are the committer of an open source project or the marketing manager of a commercial tool, do not hesitate to add your tool.
It is free and you will be able to post press releases to communicate about new versions.

This 380 page eBook "Introduction to Software Development" is designed for IT specialists and developers that are starting their way in the
free software development universe. Free Software is developed with specific collaboration techniques and tools that engage and enable world-wide
communities. Professionals need to handle different programming techniques, languages and develop specific workgroup skills.
This eBook also introduces information about collaborative and distributed work commonly known as "the bazaar model".

This book is composed of papers previously written by Watts Humphrey. The people and management aspects of software development are often neglected in books and this one is a good source to start thinking about them… and improving our practice. The book is structured in four parts: managing your projects, managing your teams, managing your boss and managing yourself. In each part, it presents both general principles and real life examples or stories taken from Watts Humphrey career.
This makes the book very easy to read as we can connect the theory to situations that we have met in our professional life.
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Methods & Tools has introduced this year a tool section in its PDF issues.
I am therefore looking for short (3-4 pages, screenshots included) presentations articles of open source software development tools
(JUnit for instance). If you are commiter to an open source project or working with such a tool and willing to present it
to the readers of Methods & Tools, do not hesitate to contact me.